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Losses incurred as a result of handbag theft:

• Between $70 and $100 cash gone
• Orange Motorola V3x gone, worth $400 odd
• Drivers licence, credit card, bank card, Medicare card, private health insurance card, RACV card, concession card, frequent kebab buyer card…gone
• House keys, car keys and PO Box keys gone
• Locksmith required to change locks on the house now that the fucker has my address and house key - $120 gone
• Change for car locking system needed now that the fucker has my address and car key - amount as yet undetermined but knowing ripoff merchant car dealers - $Fuckton gone
• Now that the fucker has my address and will shortly realise that the credit cards and phone he stole were deactivated within 15 minutes of him getting them - feeling of safety in own home gone
• My Astroboy bag from Kyoto, my Akihabara train station sign keyring, my Maes Hughes and Gaara phone stickers, my Neko Basu dangly and MY BUSTER KEYCHAIN! THE FUCKER TOOK BUSTER! HE GOT MY KEYCHAIN! I GOT HIM AT THE PILLOWS GIG! GIVE ME BACK BUSTER YOU FUCKER, I’LL KILL YOU! I’LL KILL YOU AND EAT ALL YOUR PETS!!!~1`!1`! - gone.

I’m going to sulk in my room with my Nintendo DS for the next few months. Don’t bother me, kthnxbai.

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Okay, allow me to get really geeky and emo here.

The hardest part about being an anime fan, or otaku, is not how others may ridicule you for watching “kids cartoons”. It’s not how it breaks your budget and then your wallet repeatedly. It’s not the frustration you can feel at being crap at Japanese.

It’s not even, after spending a year in Japan in general and Akihabara in particular, realising that you’re back in Australia and far away from that otaku haven.

No, the hardest thing is the fact that every anime series eventually has to end. And on average it’s only after 26 weeks. For 26 weeks, you develop favourites, you follow the story, you predict the future, you fall in love with characters or secretly plot murder for others. And even though it’s animation - as far from reality as possible - these characters are real to you and you feel a real bond with them.

Today, I watched the last episode of Ouran High School Host Club. It was lovely from beginning to end. Many thanks to Nic for recommending it in his blog. It is probably now my all-time favourite, although that spot is officially held by Cowboy Bebop. Bebop was what brought me to anime. Ouran is what will keep me interested in anime for years in the future, even at age 23, with a distinctly smaller DVD collection and an average obsession timespan of 2 years.

Yeah…I think I’ll be an otaku for a while to come. It all started with Bebop, Trigun, Kenshin, Chobits, GTO and Ninja Scroll but since then new series like Fullmetal Alchemist, Prince of Tennis, Samurai Champloo, Yakitate!! Japan, the first two seasons of Naruto, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, and of course, Ouran High School Host Club cemented it.

Hai, otaku desu~!

And damn well proud of it.

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